JMR, given the info presented in the report, I have to disagree
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This is not a gun rights argument. The same thing would have happened if he were wearing a pro life shirt, gay pride shirt, a PETA shirt, or anything that would have caused controversy at school.
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Logan County Schools' dress code, which is posted on the school system's website, prohibits clothing and accessories that display profanity, violence, discriminatory messages or sexually suggestive phrases. Clothing displaying advertisements for any alcohol, tobacco, or drug product also is prohibited.
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There doesn't seem to be any justification, given the School District's dress code, for the teacher to have bothered this boy about his shirt.
And Logan, West Virginia is sufficiently removed from Newtown, Connecticut that the teacher can't even claim the kid was being insensitive. Wearing that shirt last week while congress was in session debating the issue shows a willingness to be involved. This should be encouraged by educators, not used as grounds for harassment when the person in question stands on the other side of ones personal line of beliefs.
The teacher was wrong, the school was wrong. They are finding out how wrong they were as this plays out.